Chapter 1 Test Review (Peopling the Western Hemisphere)

What is the practice of forcing people to work without pay and without freedom?

• Ice Age

• slavery

• artifact

• irrigation

What was the period thousands of years ago, where the Earth went through periods of extreme cold called?

• Ice Age

• civilization

• empire

• irrigation

What is an object made by people in the past?

• irrigation

• civilization

• slavery

• artifact

What is water that is frozen and forms large sheets of ice called?

• Ice Age

• glacier

• civilization

• artifact

What is a kind of culture that has complex systems of government called?

Examples: Olmec, Mound Builders, Maya, Anasazi, Inca, Aztec

• civilization

• empire

• artifact

• glacier

What is it called when people can spend their time doing one type of job? They become experts in their field.

• Specialize

• irrigation

• artifact

• civilization

What is a large area of different peoples controlled by one ruler or government called?

• empire

• civilization

• Ice Age

• specialize

A method by which water is brought to dry areas is called?

• glacier

• specialize

• Ice Age

• irrigation

This civilization is often referred to as America's "Mother Civilization"

• The Olmec

• The Maya

• The Aztec

• The Mound Builders

Which civilization settled in South America?

• The Aztec

• The Inca

• The Maya

• The Anasazi